WOMEN WHO POSED AS MEN. The Golden Age of piracy.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates.
The latest Paris fashion 1898.
The latest Paris fashion, Belle Epoque. Toilette de Réception. February 1898.
Glimpses of Gotham. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes.
Glimpses of Gotham and city characters. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes. New York, 1881.
Mrs. Condé Nast, Clarisse Coudert, fashion designer, 1917.
Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns.
Indonesian Culture. Fabrics and Weapons of the Malays.
Indonesian Culture. Fabrics and Weapons of the Malays. The Malay (Orang Melayu) are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They belong to the Austronesian ethnic groups and speak the Malay… Read More
FAR-A WAY-MOSES. Jewish type. Dragoman.
The above portrait is another illustration of the persistence of the Jewish type.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
He was a transgender/non-binary french spy. one of the most brilliant and contradictory characters of the eighteenth century
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL. COSSACK FAIRY TALES.
The usual dress of a upper Austrian peasant.
The usual dress of the Austrian peasants in the year 1813 is represented in this Plate.
Indian plantation workers at Malabar around 1910.
Plantation workers harvest pepper in the historic, fabulous Malabar, today’s Kerala state, South-West of India.